Gail Alexan­der

A tem­po­rary roof for the South Cham­ber of the Red House will be put up next Wednes­day, Ude­cott has stat­ed. Ude­cott yes­ter­day gave an up­date on the re­fur­bish­ment project on the Red House as the sec­ond ses­sion of Par­lia­ment neared an end. Par­lia­ment cor­po­rate com­mu­ni­ca­tions of­fi­cer, Ja­son El­cock, said Ude­cott, the project's ex­e­cut­ing agency was best placed to com­ment on the sta­tus.

Chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer of Ude­cott Jear­lean John on Thurs­day said ex­ten­sive work had been done. She added: "We've been go­ing through the draw­ings and do­ing a sur­vey of di­lap­i­dat­ed ar­eas." Fur­ther de­tails on the sta­tus of work to date on the Red House were sup­plied by Ude­cott's pub­lic re­la­tions di­vi­sion. Main work so far has been on the tem­po­rary roof struc­ture for the South Cham­ber and link.

Ude­cott said the con­struc­tion of the roof is sched­uled to com­mence on Wednes­day. All foun­da­tion works were com­plet­ed. Work is al­so on­go­ing for the fab­ri­ca­tion of struc­tur­al steel mem­bers for the roof struc­ture. Main struc­tur­al steel mem­bers are be­ing de­liv­ered to site, Ude­cott stat­ed.

Gen­er­al clean­ing up and prepa­ra­tion works are on­go­ing for Wednes­day's roof work. An­oth­er as­pect of the work in­volves main roof works. Ude­cott stat­ed that ne­go­ti­a­tion of the Con­tract Terms and Con­di­tions are on­go­ing be­tween Ude­cott and the con­trac­tor for the restart of the roof­ing works.